Turning colder and potentially very windy

Winter is here but the temperatures have been a bit up-and-down over the last few days.

Currently we’re cold and milder air will again return for tody (Thursday).

And yes, you’ve guessed it, colder air returns after that, but this time it’s set to stay, according to Oldham weather expert Jon Baylis. 

This won’t be proper cold (yet!) but certainly more seasonal with wintry showers, frost and a notable wind-chill.

Here's Jon's latest in-depth forecast for you:

Today: Not a bad morning with dry spells and some hazy sunshine.

Cloud increasing and heavy rain arrives for the afternoon, risk of localised flooding.

Also turning windy, potentially 40-50mph later in the night (warning in place).

Mild but cooler again overnight.

Max 13°C Min 5°C.

Friday: We turn colder once again with sunny spells and wintry showers feeding down on a northwesterly wind which will be gusty at times.

Max 8°C Min 1°C.

Weekend: Some uncertainty but a chance of some strong winds or potentially some hill-snow.

Saturday: At the time of writing, a low pressure system is expected to come in from the west and deepen across the UK.

There is still some uncertainty on the track and it could track across the central part of the country, meaning we will see some strong winds, rain followed by hill-snow.

If it is to track further south along the south coast, then it’d be a day similar to Friday with sunny spells and a few scattered wintry showers and obviously not as windy.

It could be our next named-storm.

Max 5°C Min -1°C.

Sunday: Wherever the low tracks, it will be out of the way by Sunday and we can expect winds to start to turn to a more northerly direction and it will feel cold.

Sunny spells and any wintry showers should become confined to any coastal regions.

Frost at night.

Max 6°C Min 0°C.

Outlook: With high pressure out to the west, eventually a northeasterly airflow will develop and it is going to be turning colder with sharp overnight frosts and a few wintry showers but some decent sunny spells.

As the week progresses, if the high pressure can start to position itself to the north of the UK, we could start to feed in more of an easterly breeze which again will keep temperatures on the cold side but mostly dry with overnight frosts.

Follow @ChadWeather on X and Bluesky for the latest forecasts and warnings.

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